How does one begin reading? By reading to learn to read—and not the other way around,likewise, one writes free texts for, and before, learning to write. This is the fundamental principle of Célestin Freinet’s natural learning methods. It cannot be mandated or improvised: it is an art to allow the young pupil, in their own
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Lived Problems and Mathematical Initiation
The moment of inventing problems is an important part of group mathematics work: a collective and intimate moment of creation, elaboration, and inquiry that becomes an object of socialization and exchange. The approach to mathematics, like other disciplines (see free text, journal writing, and correspondence), follows the principles of natural learning methods. Experimental trial and
Families of Idioms: Occitan, Institutional foundation of the Emergence of Multilingualism.
From Célestin Freinet’s class-walk to the cooperative pedagogical training of Calandreta teachers
Patrici Baccou presents the direct link connecting the creation of cooperative pedagogy and natural learning methods by Célestin Freinet, with the pedagogy of Calandreta and Aprene, the higher education center for Occitan teacher training. The school’s openness to its environment, especially the natural one, more broadly reflects a conception of pedagogy as an ecology of
Pedagogically Welcoming Singularities
Pierre Johan Laffitte – Professor of Critical Philosophy of Education, University of Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis
Freinet and Institutional Pedagogies, at a Glance
Pierre Johan Laffitte – Professor of Critical Philosophy of Education, University of Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis